Global Patent Index - EP 0780552 B1

EP 0780552 B1 20010912 - Exhaust system for motor vehicles

Title (en)

Exhaust system for motor vehicles

Title (de)

Auspuffanlage für Kraftfahrzeuge

Title (fr)

Pot d'échappement de véhicule automobile

Publication

EP 0780552 B1 20010912 (FR)

Application

EP 96402533 A 19961126

Priority

FR 9515087 A 19951220

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0780552A1] A vehicle engine exhaust silencer comprises outer and inner tubular shells (1,2), the inner shell (2) enclosing an assembly of perforated tubes (4) and transverse baffles (5) forming a chicane. The assembly (4,5) and possibly also the inner shell (2) are made of enamelled steel sheet, the steel containing by weight in thousandths of percent 0-100 carbon, 0-500 manganese, 0-30 phosphorus, 0-40 sulphur, 0-60 aluminium, 0-200 titanium, 0-6- copper, and 0-15 nitrogen and the remainder of iron and residual impurities. The steel is hot-rolled to form a strip with a final rolling temperature above point Ar3, wound into a roll at above 600 (preferably above 750 or 700) degrees C and thereafter cold-rolled and annealed prior to enamelling.

IPC 1-7

F01N 7/16; C22C 38/00; C21D 8/02

IPC 8 full level

F01N 1/08 (2006.01); C21D 8/02 (2006.01); C22C 38/00 (2006.01); F01N 13/16 (2010.01)

CPC (source: EP KR US)

C21D 8/0226 (2013.01 - EP US); C22C 38/00 (2013.01 - EP US); F01N 1/00 (2013.01 - KR); F01N 13/16 (2013.01 - EP US); F01N 2510/08 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0780552 A1 19970625; EP 0780552 B1 20010912; AT E205580 T1 20010915; DE 69615137 D1 20011018; DE 69615137 T2 20020620; DK 0780552 T3 20011231; ES 2161997 T3 20011216; FR 2742802 A1 19970627; FR 2742802 B1 19980130; JP H09189223 A 19970722; KR 970044261 A 19970726; PT 780552 E 20020228; US 5739485 A 19980414

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 96402533 A 19961126; AT 96402533 T 19961126; DE 69615137 T 19961126; DK 96402533 T 19961126; ES 96402533 T 19961126; FR 9515087 A 19951220; JP 35527896 A 19961220; KR 19960069233 A 19961220; PT 96402533 T 19961126; US 77227296 A 19961220